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Mateo Mendoza

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Practice Areas

Private Equity & M&A
Corporate Finance
Infrastructure & Transport
Energy & Renewables
Profile

Mateo has over 20 years of professional experience in financial law and contracts with a focus on energy, infrastructure, transportation, corporate finance, and financial derivatives. He provides legal advice to sponsors, lenders and investors in strategic deals and projects, including toll roads, massive transportation systems, ports, airports, energy transition projects, exotic capital markets products and other cutting-edge transactions requiring innovation and critical legal thinking. He has worked in Colombia and in New York as international associate of A&O Shearman in the Capital Markets, Derivatives and Projects practices.

Mateo is a frequent guest panelist on the financing of energy and infrastructure projects in Colombia and the region. He is also a professor of law at the Universidad de Los Andes where he teaches Project Finance to undergraduate law students, as well as International Financial Transactions and Derivatives in postgraduate law programs.

Specialties​
  • Corporate financing.
  • Structured financing.
  • Capital markets.
  • Public credit.
  • Fintech financing.
  • Derivatives and treasury products.
  • Financial regulation.
  • Debt refinancing and restructuring.
  • Energy project finance.
  • Energy regulation.
  • Infrastructure and transportation project finance.
Qualifications
Professional
  • Admitted to the practice of law in Colombia.
Academic
  • Master of Laws (LL.M.), NYU School of Law.
  • Specialization in Financial Legislation, Universidad de Los Andes.
  • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Minor in Finance and Minor in International Business, Universidad de Los Andes.
Languages: Spanish and English
Awards & Recognitions
  • LACCA Approved | Banking & Finance - Latin America's Top Private Practitioners
  • The Legal 500 | Banking & Finance - Leading Partner
  • The Legal 500 | Capital Markets - Next Generation Partner
  • IFRL 1000 | Banking - Highly Regarded
  • IFRL 1000 | Capital Markets - Highly Regarded
  • Chambers & Partners | Banking & Finance
  • Chambers & Partners | Capital Markets
  • Best Lawyers | Project Finance, Development Finance, Banking and Financial Law
Testimonials:
  • Chambers & Partners 2024 “Mateo Mendoza possesses excellent commercial and professional management skills. He has outstanding knowledge and can handle complex situations proposing negotiations and business alternatives”.
  • Chambers & Partners 08/2024 “Mateo Mendoza is a dynamic lawyer in Colombia’s capital markets sphere who boasts experience advising both local and international underwriters on debt capital market transactions”
  • The Legal 500"Mateo Mendoza is a magnificent lawyer, able to think ahead of potential issues and think out-of-the-box on an array of solutions"

Mateo Mendoza Deals

Avista

Mateo Mendoza, Lina María Londoño
We advised Avista on the structuring, negotiation, and closing of a receivables funding operation for COP 120 billion for portfolio origination.

Lulo Bank

Mateo Mendoza, Lina María Londoño
We advised Royal Group of Abu Dhabi on the funding operation for the acquisition of the first digital bank registered in Colombia (Lulo Bank) for USD 200 million.

Rappi Pay

Lina María Londoño, Luis Armando Tolosa, Mateo Mendoza
We advised Rappi Pay on matters related to its liquidity indicators and Net Stable Funding Ratio (CFEN) before the Financial Superintendence of Colombia.

Banco Pichincha

Luis Armando Tolosa, Lina María Londoño, Mateo Mendoza
We advised Pichincha on regulatory aspects related to foreign exchange transactions, exposure indicators in its corporate debt segment, and its transition in certain financial products with a structural neo-bank approach.

BTG Pactual

Lina María Londoño, Luis Armando Tolosa, Mateo Mendoza
We advised BTG Pactual Colombia on regulatory compliance related to its treasury operations.

FDN

Lina María Londoño, Luis Armando Tolosa, Mateo Mendoza
We provide ongoing advice to FDN on financial law, regulatory compliance, and foreign exchange law matters, including the structuring of an investment classification policy.

Findeter

Mateo Mendoza
We advised Findeter on the negotiation of multiple ISDA Master Agreements and their annexes with seven international swap dealers from the United Kingdom, Spain, and France.

FDN

Mateo Mendoza, Lina María Londoño, Luis Armando Tolosa
We advised FDN on the negotiation of two ISDA Master Agreements, their annexes, the CSAs, and a bilateral agreement on the U.S. Stay Regulation.

Credicorp Capital

Lina María Londoño, Luis Armando Tolosa, Mateo Mendoza
We advised Credicorp on financial and foreign exchange regulatory matters applicable to derivatives, in relation to the 2020 Local Master Agreement and the credit support agreement, and their context in comparison with the ISDA Master Agreement.

BTG Pactual

Luis Armando Tolosa, Mateo Mendoza
We advised BTG Pactual Colombia on contractual and regulatory matters related to OTC derivatives, ISDA documentation, and Dodd-Frank protocols for its hedging operations with international swap dealers.

Avianca

Luis Armando Tolosa, María Lucía Amador, Mateo Mendoza
We advised Avianca on the negotiation of more than ten ISDA Master Agreements, their annexes, CSAs, and bilateral protocols with various international swap dealers.

Colpatria

Lina María Londoño, Luis Armando Tolosa, Mateo Mendoza
We advised Mercantil Colpatria on the negotiation of two local master agreements, their annexes, and bilateral protocols with various international swap dealers.

Mateo Mendoza Blogs

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Retos de la financiación de la biodiversidad en Colombia

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